On January 16, 2020, Nestle announced its intent to reduce use of virgin plastics by one third by 2025 through use of food-grade recycled plastics - The company will invest up to $2.07 billion "... to lead the shift from virgin plastics to food-grade recycled plastics … [which are] difficult to recycle for food packaging, leading to a limited supply ... To create a market, Nestlé is therefore committed to sourcing up to 2 million metric tons of food-grade recycled plastics and allocating more than $1.5 billion to pay a premium for these materials … [The company will also] launch a $250 million sustainable packaging venture fund to invest in start-up companies that focus on these areas …" #FoodPackaging #PlasticPackaging #PlasticWaste #Recycling
Animal Digestible Food Packaging Initiative
Our reason-for-being/goal/purpose/objective/intent is to convince/inspire/persuade/encourage the food processing industry to establish and fund a public private partnership for the discovery of new food packaging materials that would be digestible by animals (farm animals as well as ubiquitous microbes).
